Relevance ranking in the social media age., Michael Lee, Altsearchengines (Jan
Michael Lee, CEO of Thoora, opens by telling us there are 133 million blogs. Thoora can help in dealing with that number with its media search engine that provides aggregation and ranking algorithms that look for authority.
"At Thoora, we remove the risk of human bias by looking at implicit actions, as opposed to votes or link analysis. We incorporate people’s every day actions — such as comments, tweets, and forwards — into our ranking algorithm to determine which stories are generating the most buzz with minimal distortion."
Currently in beta - http://beta.thoora.com/
Worth a look - there is a Politics > Canada section.
Posted by Gwen at January 18, 2010 06:40 PM